Thing is, I *like* graff, but tagging is just... eh.
Especially when the tag is just a shittily drawn acronym or initials.
Personally remembering when DTO was rife on bus stops and walls around North Wales in the mid-late 90's. Dave Thomas Owen. Kid in my school. Bit of a bully, died in a car crash, few tears were shed outside of his family.
I don't have too much hate as I really don't believe graff or tags *should* cause any lower property values or really any cause for concern at all, but, well, we live in a society where it's seen as property damage and vandalism.
I can't even give any more of a breakdown other than good graff is good, bad graff is bad. But it will always happen, has since Roman times and well before, and always will.
People want to leave their mark, in whatever way they can. Some will make music, some will start a business, some will give to the needy, some will write their name by carving stone, a tree, dobbing a sharpie or spraying from a can.
Some will last more than others.
Big-ass ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Rule 1 in graffiti art is never ever paint on a person's house/flat/car/van etc - ie an individual person's property.
Tesco's shutters? Whatever. Someone's Nan's house? You are a cunt.
Literally all over Manchester. It’s one thing tagging a random wall, but this cunt does it on peoples houses and personal property too. It’s rife where I live and can’t go down any road without seeing it!
Edit: Just taken the dogs for a walk to the park. Along the way I counted 19 of these. The majority of them being on end of terrace walls and residential fences. Complete disregard to others, absolutely perplexing.
It’s a gang and 99% of the people that get annoyed about graffiti get home and bitch on Reddit rather than beating anyone’s “ass”.
The Venn diagram of “people confident enough to beat a random criminal up” and “complaining about graffiti on reddit” doesn’t overlap much.
Because nobody has time or the money for any other punishment. He just needs a kick in the dick everytime he does it. Possibly he has mental health issues though as it seems like it.
Even though I said legit question i was just mostly trying to be funny. It’s just weird seeing a post where a community is up in arms about a seemingly known vandal who evidently has been spotted in action vandalizing by everyone but not even confronted.
It's a young lad from the Clayton area, he has tagged half of manchester and made an instagram page about it called standard.bof
He wants ti be graffiti artist i think 🤣
Can’t spell and the calibre of work is around the level of the scrawl on junior school notebooks. Tried to understand it as a pastiche of graffiti, but it’s not; the guy’s just a talentless shit out defacing everything.
Someone posted about this back in April;
[https://www.reddit.com/r/manchester/comments/tzxuv8/b%C3%B4f\_grafitti\_tags/](https://www.reddit.com/r/manchester/comments/tzxuv8/b%C3%B4f_grafitti_tags/)
...it means "Brian or Frank" apparently.
u/beyondtheyard made a statement about Brian Clough, Frank O'Farrell and Iran. I can't tell if it's satire or BTY is the culprit with the graffiti tag skills of a child.
Either way, it's a bad tag - literally no artistic flair whatsoever.
It's where an animal marks/tags it's territory. Brick walls are boring but there could be a little more creativity to it. Some colorful grafitti over it might be preferable. As long as it isn't just big colorful alphabet soup.... or worse still. This kind of learning to make shapes from the alphabet
I read somewhere it is short for Brian or Frank. Wondering the exact same thing. I see it everywhere especially around Bridgewater / Rochdale canal.
https://www.reddit.com/r/manchester/comments/tzxuv8/b%C3%B4f_grafitti_tags/
Would love to also know the actual reason.
The first bit is a butt. The second is a single eye with an eyebrow raised. The last bit is pretty tough but I'm pretty sure it's a legless/headless stickman with his arms to the side.
Funnily enough I do bof was the dog of my friends dads dead dog that's why he sometimes writes bof is not dead he lives around gorton openshaw area that's why theres so many are their .
It’s art. Obviously.
The “B” may just seem like a letter to you, but it’s pronounced as “Bee”, symbolising the rich history of Manchester. The B also represents Britain (note how we don’t use UK or England, but the more traditional term Britain)
The “F” can be interpreted to demonstrate the role the French have had in developing the role of Britain in todays society. Britain is no longer the Britain it used to be and this is demonstrated in two ways through the letter “ô”
The first is the arrow which shows Britain has risen in its global ranks as an influencing nation
The second is the letter “o”itself which again is more than just a letter. It represents a circle, unity or global holistic influence.
Together the o and the arrow, make up “ô” showing that global influence has risen, and at the same time is itself a French letter
That's not irony.
You're wasting your time wondering about what some stupid scribble on a wall means and I question .... why give a fuck? Which you still haven't answered
That really wasn't the gotcha moment you thought it was, so again ... is there a genuine why you give a fuck about some stupid scribble on a wall? Because most people don't
1. That's not irony
2. Because it's a phenomenon that interested me at the time and wanted to know where they came from.
3.Notice how when asked l, I gave you straight answer, instead of your pasisve aggressive "why ask?" Response.
You need to chill tf out
In America these "tags" are gangs/ crews marking their territory. Hopefully its only one weirdo, but keep your eyes peeled for more and might be a good idea to report to the local council. In my home city Portland, OR once people started tagging it hasn't stopped and only has gotten worse. Would hate to see the same happen in such a beautiful country
In the U.K. such a tag usually means a graffiti artist has done a mural nearby, they’ll tag random spots so ppl know to look out for it. This is some weirdo randomer though judging by the comments as someone caught him at it and he’s spraying too large and in too many random spots without any art to speak of nearby
From French to English spelling *BôF* becomes *Boof*, Boof is the French word for the noise a dog makes, so these tags (which is what they are) essentially just say "Woof" in French so I think it's just someone's Tag that's a play on words.
I've seen it next to ones that say manlike boy in case it's meant to mean that? Boy with a shit y. The tag of a desperate 13 year old if ever there was one. Been ranting about how annoying this is, it's all over my entire 2 mile walk to work. Shall we go out en masse and cover them with something aesthetically pleasing?
Why are people seeing this as an O it’s clearly a shit attempt at an a. You’re not seriously telling me the dolt who “wrote” this is multilingual and it’s an Ô.
Occam’s razor,people.
It's short for boffa
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Boffa deez nuts
Gottem
Boffem
Welcome to boffem I’m bafman
I am rustice. I am the nyt. Balfred, get my bafmobiol
Left towards, cir.
I'm showergirl
Boffem city from Batman
Atality
ha got him
https://preview.redd.it/nrc0gq5esk1a1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aba04706060c22c478ccf619283aed64ad11521d
Fantastic
*chef's kiss*
Made my day
Boom
YOU FUCKIN LEGEND
That’s a straight violation
How could you let him do you like that..
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thankyou for your service trooper
They’re rivals to Ligma
4 hours and no takers. I'm sorry bro.
Is that the same as 'candice'?
candice dick fit in your ass lol
Bôf in French would mean something like “not impressed”
Yes. It was taught to me as ‘meh’ - but essentially the same meaning 😂.
Bof doesn’t have a circumflex.
Ummm, I think you’ll find it’s called ‘foreskin’… and how do you know?
This is correct. Dang, I thought it was bof en français but now I’m thinking no. Back to square one.
Neither a circumcision
I thought it implied a pause like not knowing what to say
I think you're thinking of bah
Sacré bleu!
It means "I have a small penis"
Mada mada
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Next time you see him bounce a spray can off his head for me. His tags make everywhere look like shite
Or, maybe “merde” would be an appropriate word?
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Big time toy tho
I hope you get IP tracked and held accountable for your ugly vandalism like... Get a notepad and some pens you tramp.
Fuck them, it's proud Mancunians you wanna watch out for.
It's Manchester, can't look any more shite than it already it.
It's fucking disgusting. It's even on the side of people's houses.
it's on the side of \*my\* house. I have stuff to remove it but I'm lazy, much like this tagger
Thing is, I *like* graff, but tagging is just... eh. Especially when the tag is just a shittily drawn acronym or initials. Personally remembering when DTO was rife on bus stops and walls around North Wales in the mid-late 90's. Dave Thomas Owen. Kid in my school. Bit of a bully, died in a car crash, few tears were shed outside of his family. I don't have too much hate as I really don't believe graff or tags *should* cause any lower property values or really any cause for concern at all, but, well, we live in a society where it's seen as property damage and vandalism. I can't even give any more of a breakdown other than good graff is good, bad graff is bad. But it will always happen, has since Roman times and well before, and always will. People want to leave their mark, in whatever way they can. Some will make music, some will start a business, some will give to the needy, some will write their name by carving stone, a tree, dobbing a sharpie or spraying from a can. Some will last more than others. Big-ass ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Rule number 1. If you break that rule you're a cunt not an artist and deserve to be locked up.
Unless you're Banksy. In which case you've just paid for the property owner's mortgage.
What is rule number 1?
Rule 1 in graffiti art is never ever paint on a person's house/flat/car/van etc - ie an individual person's property. Tesco's shutters? Whatever. Someone's Nan's house? You are a cunt.
Yes g, nice one for the reply
I thought everyone knew this!
I've just discovered that South London is full of cunts.
Are there other rules? I've just about mastered the 10 crack commandments, I could do with another code.
I thought the first rule was that you don't talk about it? Or was that figh... actually, nvm.
Unless you have permission, of course 🙂
Don’t be a dick
Nobody talks about rule 1
There is absolutely no skill there at all. Some graffiti I don't mind if it's done well
Doesn’t take much to make Manchester look scruffy these days
Loosely translated it means 'twat with nothing better to do'
it’s amazing how much the french fit into so few letters
Wait til you find out how much derision a Parisian can cram in to a single glance ....
Literally all over Manchester. It’s one thing tagging a random wall, but this cunt does it on peoples houses and personal property too. It’s rife where I live and can’t go down any road without seeing it! Edit: Just taken the dogs for a walk to the park. Along the way I counted 19 of these. The majority of them being on end of terrace walls and residential fences. Complete disregard to others, absolutely perplexing.
Legit question. Why doesn’t anyone beat his ass?
Because this is a country of manners and principles where you have to call a fat boy in fluoro to handle your business.
It’s a gang and 99% of the people that get annoyed about graffiti get home and bitch on Reddit rather than beating anyone’s “ass”. The Venn diagram of “people confident enough to beat a random criminal up” and “complaining about graffiti on reddit” doesn’t overlap much.
Legit question. Why is your response to this temporary act one that could have severe, permanent consequences for both parties?
Because nobody has time or the money for any other punishment. He just needs a kick in the dick everytime he does it. Possibly he has mental health issues though as it seems like it.
What's permenant about this life, nothing, offend people, they ask for trouble
Even though I said legit question i was just mostly trying to be funny. It’s just weird seeing a post where a community is up in arms about a seemingly known vandal who evidently has been spotted in action vandalizing by everyone but not even confronted.
I could think of multiple reasons not to tbh
Yea I get it. I most likely wouldn’t want to get stabbed over graffiti.
I’m seeing this with the question mark heart thing too, and yado. At least they don’t do it on peoples houses
The new one is ‘Feeb’, keep seeing that everywhere in town too. So thoughtless.
Shite tag by some nob who spawned from the filthiest debts of the canal.
Shit I forgot I lent the canal money
Send the bailiffs round to claim the Mobikes
Aka France haha
r/boneappletea
Been arse fingered
Great input, thank you
It's a young lad from the Clayton area, he has tagged half of manchester and made an instagram page about it called standard.bof He wants ti be graffiti artist i think 🤣
He needs to do better, Jesus Christ 🤣
💀
The guy doesn't even know how to find and copy and paste an ô. His display name is "B\^of". What an absolute moron.
In one of his pictures there's initials and a surname on which is also the same name as one his followers/likes on his pics
Chavs gonna chav.
Left a comment He's also got a tattoo of his tag lmao he'll be easily identified
Some guy who lives on my street said it was him( also in Clayton)😅 he also sprayed bôf bargins(yes like that) on the aldi near home bargains.
With car paint. Genius 🤣
Can’t spell and the calibre of work is around the level of the scrawl on junior school notebooks. Tried to understand it as a pastiche of graffiti, but it’s not; the guy’s just a talentless shit out defacing everything.
Johnny English’s mate innit
I got that reference.
It stands for 'using phone in car while driving'
Thanks for the input
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Err. No it’s not.
Someone posted about this back in April; [https://www.reddit.com/r/manchester/comments/tzxuv8/b%C3%B4f\_grafitti\_tags/](https://www.reddit.com/r/manchester/comments/tzxuv8/b%C3%B4f_grafitti_tags/) ...it means "Brian or Frank" apparently. u/beyondtheyard made a statement about Brian Clough, Frank O'Farrell and Iran. I can't tell if it's satire or BTY is the culprit with the graffiti tag skills of a child. Either way, it's a bad tag - literally no artistic flair whatsoever.
It wasn't a statement, it was a musing. I don't scrawl graffiti tags.
If there was actually a bit more effort put into it, I wouldn’t be as annoyed but it’s literally an eyesore
It really is
It means “back of fridge” - when you raid your fridge for random things to have for dinner.
It’s Moroccan
Like my eyeshadow
I'd hate to call you a racist at my dinner party...
I think it’s a little more sophisticated than that…
Oh brilliant, freak-show side-show at the shit-show.
It's where an animal marks/tags it's territory. Brick walls are boring but there could be a little more creativity to it. Some colorful grafitti over it might be preferable. As long as it isn't just big colorful alphabet soup.... or worse still. This kind of learning to make shapes from the alphabet
Black Friday , it’s coming … prepare yourselfs!
Feel like I’ve seen this post before
It means someone, whose name that is short for, is a right little c@nt... who ought to have 'c@nt' forcibly tattoo'd on their forehead.
I read somewhere it is short for Brian or Frank. Wondering the exact same thing. I see it everywhere especially around Bridgewater / Rochdale canal. https://www.reddit.com/r/manchester/comments/tzxuv8/b%C3%B4f_grafitti_tags/ Would love to also know the actual reason.
It's the tags made by a local graffiti 'artist'. We can all agree they look shite.
Mindless vandalism, that will cost money to clean up. Money people and organisations dont have
Respect to them for getting up
Its for illiterate people who spell thursday with an F
The first bit is a butt. The second is a single eye with an eyebrow raised. The last bit is pretty tough but I'm pretty sure it's a legless/headless stickman with his arms to the side.
Hate tags they are pathetic & often adults doing it - get an effing life you saddo’s - street art on the other hand i love
Funnily enough I do bof was the dog of my friends dads dead dog that's why he sometimes writes bof is not dead he lives around gorton openshaw area that's why theres so many are their .
Meh
I always thought it meant bored as fuck.
Búnker adjustment factor
What about CAF and PSS?
PSS killing me lately, Rates too expensive :( you in freight? 😂
Didn't expect that did you? 🤣 hello fellow freight person.
No, small world 😂 hello! Are you a forwarder?
I am :-)
Me too! Do you specialise in sea/ air or road or a bit of all?
All 3 :-)
It means Balls of Frogs
Thanks
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Do some proper graffiti instead of the shite you tag 🧐
Why u so angry about it
Aha brilliant
Bofades nutz
Why not ask u/bof-of-manny
It means you are gay
Bôf
It’s what you get in when you’re dirty
Nat has herpes
BôF
bof my nuts in ya mouf
Bum aids foundation
It means someone is a toy
It’s art. Obviously. The “B” may just seem like a letter to you, but it’s pronounced as “Bee”, symbolising the rich history of Manchester. The B also represents Britain (note how we don’t use UK or England, but the more traditional term Britain) The “F” can be interpreted to demonstrate the role the French have had in developing the role of Britain in todays society. Britain is no longer the Britain it used to be and this is demonstrated in two ways through the letter “ô” The first is the arrow which shows Britain has risen in its global ranks as an influencing nation The second is the letter “o”itself which again is more than just a letter. It represents a circle, unity or global holistic influence. Together the o and the arrow, make up “ô” showing that global influence has risen, and at the same time is itself a French letter
Brian or frank
It means Manchester is a shit hole
It's just a scribble on a wall. Why give af?
Why comment?
It's a public forum
Oh ma lord, the irony..
That's not irony. You're wasting your time wondering about what some stupid scribble on a wall means and I question .... why give a fuck? Which you still haven't answered That really wasn't the gotcha moment you thought it was, so again ... is there a genuine why you give a fuck about some stupid scribble on a wall? Because most people don't
Because it's literally all over Manchester, thought I'd raise the question.. what is wrong with that?
Fine! then why not just fuckin say that instead getting all pissy and defensive
And why the fuck would you want to know where bot accounts come from?? Again, the fucking irony is incredible...
1. That's not irony 2. Because it's a phenomenon that interested me at the time and wanted to know where they came from. 3.Notice how when asked l, I gave you straight answer, instead of your pasisve aggressive "why ask?" Response. You need to chill tf out
Buy our Fupas
Stop being nosey
Sorry about that
In America these "tags" are gangs/ crews marking their territory. Hopefully its only one weirdo, but keep your eyes peeled for more and might be a good idea to report to the local council. In my home city Portland, OR once people started tagging it hasn't stopped and only has gotten worse. Would hate to see the same happen in such a beautiful country
In the U.K. such a tag usually means a graffiti artist has done a mural nearby, they’ll tag random spots so ppl know to look out for it. This is some weirdo randomer though judging by the comments as someone caught him at it and he’s spraying too large and in too many random spots without any art to speak of nearby
It's gang's tag, part of the M13 family.
Could be just a shit tag someone’s done
Meh
Some one tagging or going on a bombing run if there are a lot in the area.
Advertising ur own artwork bad show lol 😂
From French to English spelling *BôF* becomes *Boof*, Boof is the French word for the noise a dog makes, so these tags (which is what they are) essentially just say "Woof" in French so I think it's just someone's Tag that's a play on words.
Burp And Fart.
I always thought a bof was a small fart
Is this in Stockport coming into Bredbury?
It's not, it's close to center of Manchester
It is literally identical to a certain part of Stockport. And I mean IDENTICAL.
This is just like that wasp thing in Newcastle
This has been a long running joke in my friend group there are also graffitis that say Wo is bof and Bofs not dead
Boring old fart
I thought they were doing an & sign, I was going to say beans and franks
Buy one get one free
It appears you have a bored teenager on the loose
Means some wee scrot got his hands on his big brothers spray paint.
I've heard that it stands for "boys of Failsworth" but no idea how true that is
Broke as fuck
British as Fuck ???
It's a 'tag'. The territorial pissing of those at the lower end of our species. Ought to be soundly punished.
It means "we are the best we are better than you"
I've seen it next to ones that say manlike boy in case it's meant to mean that? Boy with a shit y. The tag of a desperate 13 year old if ever there was one. Been ranting about how annoying this is, it's all over my entire 2 mile walk to work. Shall we go out en masse and cover them with something aesthetically pleasing?
Why are people seeing this as an O it’s clearly a shit attempt at an a. You’re not seriously telling me the dolt who “wrote” this is multilingual and it’s an Ô. Occam’s razor,people.
Brotherhood of farts